The Cold War (in the sense of the post WWII-1991 conflict) was very much a result of Stalin’s actions. He had promised at Yalta that there would be free elections in the Soviet occupied territories, but of course there weren’t, which doomed the wartime alliance he had with the other WWII Allied powers. And you can’t understand the absurd pseudo-religious personality cults of later Communist dictators like Ceaușescu or Hoxha (or the North Korean Kims even to this day) without understanding that these pathetic tinpot dictators were trying to copy Stalin, so his influence extended well beyond his lifetime.
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